12.45pm Welcome and Opening Prayers were said by Revd Marcus Nelson

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1 Parish Meeting & Annual Parochial Church Meeting Sunday 2 nd April 2017 Chaired by: Revd Marcus Nelson 12.45pm Welcome and Opening Prayers were said by Revd Marcus Nelson 12.50pm: Parish Meeting Election of wardens Name of candidate Proposer Seconder Laura Pendlebury Ann Baker Val Jeal Philip May Rick Parsons Alison Edmonds There was a unanimous vote to elect Laura Pendlebury and Philip May as the new churchwardens. Alison Edmonds was thanked for the 2 years that she had served as churchwarden. MEETING CLOSED pm: Annual Parochial Church Meeting 1. Apologies: Helen Aberdeen Julia Dunn Vanessa Conte Andrew Hogg Nick Stroud Helen Stroud Tony Low Rosie Low Tim Bushell Margie Bushell Dan Green David Thyer Philip May Sarah Douglas Julie Brown Stephen Brown Chris Budd Sue Budd Helen Djenguet Vianet Djenguet Andrew Lucas Mel Lucas Catherine Smith Present & signed in: David Aberdeen Paul Crocker Katheryn C Joyce Stocks Heather Cressy Margaret Williams

2 Laura Pendlebury Cliff Jeal Ian Caithness Ruth Rimmer Jo Hopkins Catherine Green Chris Smith Rick Parsons Gillian Jooman Mary Parsons Ann Baker Jordan Allen Michael Walker Val Jeal Margaret May Andrew Stephen Hope Carey Fabian Breckles Laura Protheroe Kyle Douglas Simon Pugh-Jones Shirley Beddoes Susan Sheppard Will Hull Jackie Burnell Sue Rowlands Rosamund Syrett Harriet Dove Graham Syrett Tom Dove James Rimmer Sam Chapple Ilho Choi Fernando Hartwig Della Nelson Nigel Currie Alison Edmonds Andrew McAllister Polly Wingate-Saul Sally Wood Andrew Wood Pat Pillinger Jim Baillie Pauline Roberts Nigel Clift Gina Coleman 2. Minutes of the last meeting Agreed as an accurate record by show of hands and signed by Marcus Nelson. 3. Matters arising. No matters arising. 4. Elections and appointments: a) Election of PCC members: There were 3 nominations for 3 spaces: Name of candidate Proposer Seconder James Rimmer Laura Pendlebury Heather Cressey Ann Baker Polly Wingate-Saul Alison Edmonds Vianet Djenguet Della Nelson Laura Pendlebury There was a unanimous vote to elect the above onto the new PCC. b) Election of Deanery Synod members: There were 3 nominations for 3 spaces: Name of candidate Proposer Seconder Nigel Currie Jo Hopkins Alison Edmonds Julia Dunn Della Nelson Margaret Williams James WJ Taylor Della Nelson Margaret Williams There was a unanimous vote to elect the above as Deanery Synod members

3 The full list of PCC members for is therefore as follows: Revd Marcus Nelson Revd Minty Hull Mr Richard Pendlebury Mr Philip May Mrs Laura Pendlebury Mr Andrew Lucas Mrs Ruth Rimmer Ms Vanessa Conte Mr Nigel Currie Mr James W J Taylor Miss Julia Dunn Incumbent Curate Curate Churchwarden Churchwarden Ex-officio through Diocesan Synod Ex-officio through Diocesan Synod Ex-officio through Diocesan and Deanery Synod Ex-officio through Deanery Synod Ex-officio through Deanery Synod Ex-officio through Deanery Synod Elected members: Mr Andrew Wood until 2018 (Treasurer) Mrs Helen Aberdeen until 2018 Miss Polly Wingate-Saul until 2018 Mrs Katheryn Caithness until 2018 (Secretary) Mr Chris Smith until 2019 Mr Simon Pugh-Jones until 2019 Mr Kyle Douglas until 2019 Mr James Rimmer until 2020 Mrs Ann Baker until 2020 Mr Vianet Djenguet until 2020 c) i) Appointment of assistant wardens: David Aberdeen Kevin Froud Kate Pinfold Nigel Currie Kyle Douglas Polly Wingate-Saul Sally Wood Will Hull James Taylor Nick Stroud The above list of names were presented to, and agreed by a show of hands along with approval that if the wardens felt that they needed to add anyone else to the list then they would be free to do so. Unanimously passed. ii) Appointment of welcomers: Margie Bushell Nigel Clift Heather Cressey Cliff Jeal Val Jeal Ali Taylor Pat Goddard Ruth Pitter (reserve) Simon Pugh-Jones

4 The above list of names were presented to, and agreed by a show of hands along with an approval that if the wardens felt like they needed to add anyone else to the list then they would feel free to do so. Unanimously passed. d) Independent Examiner It was proposed that Burton Sweet be appointed as our Independent Examiner. Agreed by show of hands. e) Electoral Roll Officer Marcus thanked Margaret May for her work as Electoral Roll Officer over the last year and asked for support that she continue in this role. 5. Reports Agreed by show of hands. a) Fabric Report (Churchwardens) including any questions. Alison Edmonds presented the fabric report from the Churchwardens to the meeting. Details of the report were included in the Annual Review. Alison particularly wanted to thank people for their support to her and to Phil May, the Building Team, cleaners, coffee team, flower team, welcomers and assistant wardens, the sacristans and in particular Mary Parsons. The technicians, gardeners, treasurer, singers, musicians, safeguarding officer all these people have contributed to the smooth running of the church. Alison encouraged people to support all these areas of church life. b) Electoral Roll (Officer Margaret May) This year the Electoral Roll was revised. I We have had 15 leave and 11 join. Therefore the confirmed number for 2017 is 145. It was noted that a further 8 people had applied to go onto the roll after the closing date and so won t be counted until the next update in c) Financial Report (Treasurer - Andrew Wood) including any questions. Andrew shared a verse from Chronicles and highlighted the importance of stewardship which sets the context of what the numbers are about. Playgroup finances update. Playgroup operational finances are kept and accounted for separately. Our largest outgoing is Parish Share. For 2017 the PCC agreed s Income Standing Order income is about 100k per annum, which is about 80% of our income. SO income has decreased over the last

5 few years. As at Dec 2016 there were 56 standing orders and over the course of the last 12 months it has reduced by about 1k per month. We are very tax efficient and reclaim all Gift Aid available. In 2016 there was a suplus of 13k, which can be accounted for by the gift day response and 1 or 2 large one-off donations. In 2017 the PCC is budgeting a deficit of 14k. Approximately 20k per annum is made from hiring the hall and building. Parish Share is our largest expenditure. PCC have decided to reduce Parish Share in 2017 to 75k. Staff costs have been a large part of the expenditure and are important part of the ministry of St Matthews. Mission support is 10% of income and is ringfenced to support our mission partners. Maintenance costs were high in 2016 related to the heating and alarm systems. The playgroup had a difficult year in 2015 but 2016 was a good recovery year and made a surplus again of 6.5k after paying 9k for hall rental. There may be challenges for the playgroup in the future with the introduction of 30 hours nursery provision per week per child and whether this would be possible given our hall availability. Andrew highlighted that reserves had been boosted in 2016 by a legacy gift which leaves us in a much stronger financial position. Ruth Rimmer thanked Andrew for his work and for his input to this meeting. Andrew thanked Martin Lings who manages the accounts on a day to day basis which is a huge amount of work for which Andrew is very grateful. This will pass over to Martin Kilb once the bank mandate can be set up. 6. APCM report There were no particular questions. Marcus thanked people for their input and highlighted how encouraging it was to reflect on the past year. Marcus responded to a question about churchmanship and explained that he was reluctant to label St Matthew s as one thing or another but wanted to be welcoming to all. There was also a question about the level of engagement with other churches and with social action across the city which there was some concern about because people hadn t heard about things through St Matthews. Marcus explained that it is taking time to network and make connections but that this is the hope for the future.

6 7. Vicar Marcus thanked everybody who has a role and contributes to the life of St Matthews. He particularly thanked Alison Edmonds again for her service as Churchwarden. 8. Closing Prayers